Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She has since written and directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy. In 2025, she created the Netflix series Too Much starring Megan Stalter.

• •Lena Dunham's first feature film, "Creative Nonfiction", was made for just $6,000.
• •Lena Dunham attended Oberlin College, where she studied creative writing.
• •Lena Dunham wrote and directed the pilot episode of "Girls" while she was still in her mid-twenties.
• •Lena Dunham has openly discussed her struggles with endometriosis and has been an advocate for women's health issues.
• •Lena Dunham is an author and has written a book of essays titled "Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's 'Learned'".